Lori Lamothe

Joined January 2021

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Poet, Writer, Mom. Owner of two rescue huskies. Former baker who writes on books, true crime, culture and fiction.

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Learning to Knit During a Pandemic
The disease blooms numbers that spread across maps and climb bar graphs. In broad daylight they ride the wind,
By Lori Lamothe2 months ago in Poets
Color in February
This morning the curtains glow the color of embers. Don’t get me wrong. It’s still winter, still New England and on the other side of the window
By Lori Lamothe2 months ago in Poets
Closed & Open Spaces
Early sunlight fires the snow until the world is pure glare— as if there’s nothing left of landscape but the future, the whole yard
By Lori Lamothe2 months ago in Poets
The Orchid Keeper's Dream
I’ve always wanted to be the one who fills in the blanks. At night I conjure lips pressed to the usual hollows, the spaces beating hummingbird wings,
By Lori Lamothe3 months ago in Poets
Tea
Tea in a mug, held between both hands, late winter light slanting through the windows. All week I’ve brewed tea, by which I mean
By Lori Lamothe3 months ago in Poets
Devil's Ivy
The sunroom an explosion of mottled hearts, tendrils unfurling all the way to the ceiling as if I’m the right kind of saint, the kind
By Lori Lamothe3 months ago in Poets
First Place in Get Comfortable Challenge
Walking the Dog in Winter First Place in Get Comfortable Challenge
The tree holds sky between its branches— a cloud and a blue so intense it reminds me of summer, as if it’s possible for a dying,
By Lori Lamothe3 months ago in Poets
The City
The city is frozen but it never stops just goes on as in on the street outside our hotel with the mermaid-themed décor a woman
By Lori Lamothe3 months ago in Poets
American Girls
At the soda fountain, a row of girls and dolls with combed hair and clear eyes sip pink frappes from pink straws,
By Lori Lamothe3 months ago in Poets
Carousel
The horses gallop, dance. prance in and out of imagination. Around the room, the sketched walls ride up and down,
By Lori Lamothe3 months ago in Poets
Transport
In the cafes when you woke out of a trance the wine trembled in crystal glasses and even the wintery light stopped to listen,
By Lori Lamothe3 months ago in Poets
Archaeologists Excavating the Real-Life "Stone Table" from The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
This July, archaeologists began excavating the famous “Arthur's Stone” in Herefordshire, England. A thousand years older than Stonehenge, the Neolithic monument is said to be the place where King Arthur slew a giant. But there's another reason the 5,000-year-old site is legendary: it's the inspiration for the Stone Table in C.S. Lewis's The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe.
By Lori Lamothe4 months ago in FYI

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Learning to Knit During a Pandemic

Color in February

Closed & Open Spaces

The Orchid Keeper's Dream

Tea

Devil's Ivy

Walking the Dog in Winter First Place in Get Comfortable Challenge

The City

American Girls

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Archaeologists Excavating the Real-Life "Stone Table" from The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe

Achievements (5)